
This entry was posted in Cyberduck and tagged aws, ec2, iam, s3. We think this will make deployments of the duck to EC2 a lot easier without the need to distribute credentials along with. Make sure to edit the role name in the profile to match your IAM configuration. See Connecting with temporary access credentials from EC2.

the -profile option to reference a connection profile file to use not installed in the standard location.
#CONNECT CYBERDUCK S3 WITHOUT SSL DOWNLOAD#
The S3 (Temporary Credentials) profile can be installed from the wiki. Download Files Matching Glob Pattern from S3. We have now added a login option to the current snapshot builds of 4.7 available through a connection profile that allows to connect from EC2 with Cyberduck on Windows or the CLI version on Linux instances with IAM role credentials obtained from instance metadata. Assign the required role to the service account. CyberDuck is available for macOS and Windows and as a console client for Linux. This enables you to use security credentials on EC2 to access S3 that are temporary and rotated automatically. CyberDuck is a GUI client that allows you to work with cloud storages, including those compatible with the Amazon S3 API. When you are launching an EC2 instance you can assign it with an IAM role with specific permissions to AWS resources. cyberduckprofile extension and change the Save as type to All Files. Change the protocol from FTP to Amazon S3. By default, cyberduck assumes that a new connection will use the FTP protocol. Copy the file contents into a notepad/any text editor. Prior to attempting to connect, obtain the access key ID and secret access key.

All of our devs are perfectly comfortable on the CLI. If the developers are really using Transmit 'heavily', chances are, that they are manually doing things that should be automated. I tried the same cyberduck, and profile/access credentials on an SSL endpoint, and it worked. Cyberduck is defaulting to HTTPS and HTTP can not be selected. aws-cli DOES support interaction with S3 and developers being developer should be able to use the command line for certain tasks. Resumable - interrupted file transfers will pick up where they left off. Thats when i started suspecting that the request was coming in SSL-encrypted, on an endpoint configured to not use SSL. S3 is an attractive alternative to FTP: Secure - all uploads are secured via SSL. Open S3 (HTTPS) profile connection profile file. When I sniffed the network, I saw a request come in from my client machine where cyberduck is running, but it was all garbage. In the Profiles tab, choose S3 (HTTPS) from the connection profiles list.

#CONNECT CYBERDUCK S3 WITHOUT SSL FOR MAC#
This is a technical post for users that are familiar with AWS EC2. For Mac users, select Cyberduck and then Preferences.
